While picnics and outdoor events are fun, the vast majority of disposable products picnickers use wind up in landfills, adding to the waste stream humans generate. The Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability has developed a program designed to offset this problem by helping people create a zero-waste event from planning stages to final cleanup.

EAS+Y volunteers can direct event organizers to places where they can purchase recyclable or compostable cups, plates, or utensils, which are available from many sources, including a local wholesaler.

Evergreen High School graduate Stephanie Lownds says she is excited — and a little scared — about heading to the University of Wyoming in a few weeks as a freshman.

Lownds also says she appreciates her Bootstraps scholarship, which will help with tuition and room and board.

Anna Bowes, another Evergreen High grad and Bootstraps recipient, is getting ready to move to a dorm at Colorado State University, where she will study music and participate in the school’s marching band.

The Evergreen High School gymnasium was packed on Monday night for a basketball game that wasn’t about the sport itself but about support for Evergreen’s Haebe family.

Hundreds of EHS students, alums, parents, teachers and friends paid the $5 entry fee and donated a little more to help out Scott and Klaudia Haebe, whose son Ryan sustained a head injury when he fell 13 feet as he was trying to climb onto the roof of an apartment building in Boulder.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to the Jeffco Fairgrounds on Thursday and promoted his job-creating and deficit-cutting policies, while blasting President Barack Obama’s inability to turn around the economy.

“He had a lot of people excited. But look at the results. It’s been a disappointment. His policies have not worked,” Romney said.

A former Evergreen man found guilty of unlawful sexual contact involving an at-risk adult has received a sentence of 45 days in prison and 3½ years of intensely supervised probation.

During his sentencing hearing Aug. 2 in Jefferson County Court, Ronald Ruhoff, 73, acknowledged having physical contact with the 29-year-old victim, whom he met while working as a driver for an area organization.